Russia and Ukraine continue to prepare for the second meeting, which reaches in peace negotiations after May 16, which led to the exchange of prisoners. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Lavrov proposed yesterday that the delegations of both countries gather on June 2 in Istanbul, to which their Ukrainian colleague, Rustem Umarov, replied that another party should previously deliver a memorandum with Russian initial conditions so that new contacts would give specific results.
“We do not oppose more meetings with the Russians and expect their“ memorandum ”, so the meeting is not empty, and we can really move to the end of the war,” Umarov wrote in X after Russia offered a new meeting on Monday in Istanbul to talk about conditions to announce a fire and give negotiations.
Umrov explained that Kyiv had already given Moscow a document in which he determines his position and added that “the Russian part has at least four days before its departure (towards Istanbul) to deliver a document to Ukraine and that it can analyze it.
Vladimir Minsky, Russian presidential adviser, said in a message about Telegram that he personally called UMROV to offer a meeting “in the next few days” for the exchange of checkers of the memorandum with conditions for the high potential of the fire.
These messages coincide with the presence of Foreign Minister Khakan Fidan in Kyiv today, who plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky.
“Meetings between the parties should give results. That is why each meeting should be prepared properly, ”said the Ukrainian minister, who headed the meeting held in Istanbul on May 16, when the Russians made a decision, declared a truce without solving the problems that they consider fundamental in the conflict.
Umrov congratulated himself because the “pressure” of European leaders, US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian, Volodimir Zelensky, accepted the Kremlin to offer this second meeting after an attempt to “postpone this process”, not representing their conditions immediately after Trump was committed to on May 19. The Minister of the Ukrainian, however, is that the Russians “continue to be supplied.
Kyiv accuses Moscow of a desire to extend the war. Russia brings the initiative ahead and slowly receives the area in the north -east and eastern Ukraine.